BP has about 80,000 employees world-wide. BP BP -0.66 % PLC said Tuesday it would slash about 4,000 jobs from its exploration-and-production unit—about one-sixth of the staff in that business—over the next year or so, the latest in a wave of cuts across an industry beset by plummeting oil prices. BP’s cuts will affect workers in places including Angola, Azerbaijan and the U.S., a spokesman said, where BP has big oil-and-gas production operations. Some 600 of the cuts will come from BP’s operations in the North Sea. The company currently has about 3,000 employees in the North Sea, and 24,000 exploration-and-production employees world-wide, the spokesman said. BP’s announcement comes after many of its rivals announced similar levels of job cuts in response to oil prices that have fallen by more than two-thirds since mid 2014. U.S. oil was trading just above $31 on Tuesday, brought lower by a Chinese […]